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Martin @ Exit 272

General Info

  • Role:

    FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 1, _FilmMakerRole = Director) / FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 2, _FilmMakerRole = Producer) / FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 4, _FilmMakerRole = Screenwriter)

  • Website

    Mr. Wagner's Final Cut, which I'd like to link to here, but MySpace's fucked up system won't let me.

  • Influences

    See "Directors"

  • Directors

    Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Robert Wise, Orson Welles

Blurbs

About me:

Hello there, boys and girls. Welcome to the self-indulgent MySpace page of Martin Wagner, Austinite and filmmaker. Exit 272 is the name of my production shingle, named after a highway exit on I-10 in West Texas, about which I have somewhat peculiar but fond memories.

I'm currently in pre-production on a feature documentary, Bloody Work, about the infamous yet curiously forgotten 1885 Servant Girl Annihilator serial murders. (Jack the Ripper happened three years later, which may be why.) As things progress I intend to use this MySpace page to generate awareness of the work, and hopefully network with other talented filmmakers.

Beginning now: a complete series of transcripts from the Austin Daily Statesman from 1885, chronicling the murders and the city's reaction to them. It ought to keep you busy while production on the actual movie continues, with interviews due to be shot after the first of the year, and an offical website and teaser trailer around the same time. Check the blog above for the articles, beginning with that fateful New Year's Day, 1885, when everything changed in Austin....

Update: After over a year of research and prep, shooting began on Bloody Work on April 22, 2007.

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Who I'd like to meet:

Cool as hell people in film, in Texas and elsewhere.
Ahoy, indie filmmakers: I draw storyboards.
If you're looking for a storyboard artist, or conceptual artist to do illustrations for your investment package, I bring ten years' experience as a comics professional to my storyboarding work. Check my pics for some recent samples. Then e-mail me for terms and such. Please, serious inquiries only.
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Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Austin, TX
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Religion: Atheist
  • Zodiac Sign: Taurus
  • Children: I don't want kids
  • Education: Some college
  • Occupation: Filmmaker, Artist, Writer

Interests

  • General

    You Are Very Skeptical
    Your personal motto is: "Prove it."
    While some ideas, like life after death, may seem nice...
    You aren't going to believe them simply because it feels good.
    You let science and facts be your guide... Even if it means you don't share the beliefs of those around you.
    Reading; writing; art; films (both watching and making); my dogs; video games (though I'm hardly hardcore); science; atheist/rationalist/humanist activism; sleeping late whenever I can get away with it.

    The following dogs rock more than any dogs ever.

  • Music


    54 Seconds
    And Also the Trees
    Attrition
    Azam Ali
    Bill Nelson
    The Church
    Cocteau Twins
    David Bowie
    David Sylvian/Nine Horses
    Dead Can Dance
    The Flower Kings
    Gary Numan
    Genesis
    John Coltrane
    King Crimson
    McCoy Tyner
    Miles Davis
    Peter Gabriel
    Pink Floyd
    Porcupine Tree
    Qntal
    Robert Rich
    Spock's Beard
    Steve Roach
    Steve Tibbetts
    Vas
    XTC
    Yes
    and there are about 150 other artists on my iPod I'm not thinking of right now.

  • Movies

    Best fucking movie in the universe!

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The 400 Blows
    Akira
    Alien
    Aliens
    The Andromeda Strain
    Battle Royale
    Beneath the Planet of the Apes
    Black Narcissus
    Blade Runner
    Brazil
    A Bridge Too Far
    Casablanca
    Citizen Kane
    Cowboy Bebop
    Dawn of the Dead (Romero original)
    Dead Ringers
    Double Suicide
    Dracula a.k.a. Horror of Dracula (Hammer classic version with Cushing and Lee)
    Dr. No
    The Empire Strikes Back (1980 version)
    A Fistful of Dollars
    For a Few Dollars More
    From Russia with Love
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    The Great Escape
    Halloween
    Hard-Boiled
    The Haunting (1960 version)
    Heavenly Creatures
    The Hidden Fortress
    Ichi the Killer
    Ikiru
    Ju-on
    Kagemusha
    Kairo
    The Killer
    Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
    King Kong (both 1933 and Peter Jackson versions)
    Kwaidan
    Last Year at Marienbad
    Lawrence of Arabia
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    The Lord of the Rings trilogy
    The Maltese Falcon
    Mon Oncle
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Monty Python's Life of Brian
    My Neighbor Totoro
    Nausicaa of the Valley of Winds
    Night of the Living Dead (Romero original)
    North by Northwest
    Notorious
    Passage to Marseille
    Planet of the Apes (original version)
    Playtime
    Princess Mononoke
    Project A
    Project A Part II
    Psycho
    Pulp Fiction
    Quatermass and the Pit
    Ran
    Rashomon
    Rebecca
    The Red Shoes
    Reservoir Dogs
    Rififi
    Seven Samurai
    Snatch
    Sonatine
    Spirited Away
    Star Wars (1977 version)
    Suspicion
    The Thing (both Howard Hawks and John Carpenter versions)
    Throne of Blood
    The Trial (Orson Welles version)
    Vertigo
    Videodrome
    Where Eagles Dare
    The Yakuza Papers Saga: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
    Yojimbo

    I'm sure I will think of more....

  • Television

    Not a big TV watcher...but I have liked...

    Mystery Science Theater 3000, The X-Files (mostly the first four seasons), Millennium (first two seasons), HBO's Rome and Deadwood, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Young Ones, Black Adder, The Prisoner, Danger Man, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, South Park, Invader Zim.

  • Books

    Too many to list. For starters:

    • The Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkien
    • A Song of Ice and Fire saga by George R. R. Martin
    • The Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson
    • The God Delusion, The Blind Watchmaker and The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
    • The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
    • The Great Mortality by John Kelly
    • His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
    • Pretty much anything by the late, great David Gemmell — but the Troy trilogy rules
    • The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
    • Yes, I have a big jones for Terry Pratchett's Discworld
    • The historical true crime sagas of Harold Schechter

  • Heroes

    Orson Welles (the system was always against him, yet he fought on), Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Robert G. Ingersoll, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Charles Darwin, James Randi, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Madelyn O'Hair (a real bitch, but someone who bravely stood up to the forces of politicized religion).

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